Fic Rec: A Devil's Foot
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221b_recsTitle: A Devil's Foot
Author: blod1tatws
Pairing: None
Length: 11,000 words
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: A mysterious case comes to Sherlock and John in a small village in Cornwall. Quiet and simple murder? Or is it supernatural? Modern update of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Devil's Foot.
Reccer's comments: This is a charming new take on the classic ACD story, told through a number of blog posts - including one super cute contribution by Sherlock who's desperate to show John that he really knows how to write up a case. But, in my private opinion, he also ends up romanticising things. Not that he manages to do that for long, though, because as soon as Sherlock goes off on a tangent about his experiments John wrenches the laptop away from him to finish the post himself, leaving Sherlock to sulk off to the kitchen to start a new experiment just to annoy his blogging flatmate... In short, both are being a bit immature and thoroughly adorable and it's a joy to watch, i.e. read.
Additionally, there are comments to each of the blog posts similar to those on John Watson's official blog in which everybody we know is allowed to step up and say hi and elicit a few laughs from us. Also, the comments feature an interesting twist involving a minor character I love very much which has made it straight into my headcanon for said character.
What I really like about this story is how the circumstances in which John narrates the case are constantly brought to our attention - John being busy at the clinic, Sherlock dragging him away from the laptop because they have a new case, Sherlock buying the wrong milk and other sweet little domestic problems at 221B, and everybody else constantly speculating over whether or not Sherlock and John are a couple. I felt transported right back into the good old Season 1 days when I was reading this.
Author: blod1tatws
Pairing: None
Length: 11,000 words
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: A mysterious case comes to Sherlock and John in a small village in Cornwall. Quiet and simple murder? Or is it supernatural? Modern update of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Devil's Foot.
Reccer's comments: This is a charming new take on the classic ACD story, told through a number of blog posts - including one super cute contribution by Sherlock who's desperate to show John that he really knows how to write up a case. But, in my private opinion, he also ends up romanticising things. Not that he manages to do that for long, though, because as soon as Sherlock goes off on a tangent about his experiments John wrenches the laptop away from him to finish the post himself, leaving Sherlock to sulk off to the kitchen to start a new experiment just to annoy his blogging flatmate... In short, both are being a bit immature and thoroughly adorable and it's a joy to watch, i.e. read.
Additionally, there are comments to each of the blog posts similar to those on John Watson's official blog in which everybody we know is allowed to step up and say hi and elicit a few laughs from us. Also, the comments feature an interesting twist involving a minor character I love very much which has made it straight into my headcanon for said character.
What I really like about this story is how the circumstances in which John narrates the case are constantly brought to our attention - John being busy at the clinic, Sherlock dragging him away from the laptop because they have a new case, Sherlock buying the wrong milk and other sweet little domestic problems at 221B, and everybody else constantly speculating over whether or not Sherlock and John are a couple. I felt transported right back into the good old Season 1 days when I was reading this.
